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Telnet
The first thing to do is to open a connection from your computer to your mail server.
telnet mail.domain.ext 25
You should receive a reply like:
Trying ???.???.???.???...
Connected to mail.domain.ext.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.domain.ext ESMTP Sendmail ?version-number?; ?date+time+gmtoffset?
You will then need to delcare where you are sending the email from:
HELO local.domain.name - dont worry too much about your local domain name although you
really should use your exact fully qualified domain name as seen by the outside world the mail
server has no choice but to take your word for it as of RFC822-RFC1123.
This should give you:
250 mail.domain.ext Hello local.domain.name [loc.al.i.p], pleased to meet you
If you want a subject for your email type Subject:-type subject here- then press enter
twice (these are needed to conform to RFC 882)
You may now proceed to type the body of your message (e.g. hello mail@otherdomain.ext
from mail@domain.ext)
To tell the mail server that you have completed the message enter a single "." on a line on it's
own.
The mail server should reply with: 250 2.0.0 ???????? Message accepted for delivery
I'll be putting more as and when I get them and figure out how to fix each problem.